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Youth Novels
Now that it becomes dark so early in the evening, all I want to do after 5 pm is hibernate and read quietly for hours. David makes us hot chocolate, and I eventually fall asleep on top of the bed,...
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Sweet Valley High
I acquired these beautiful little books last week after selling my GRE guides to a used book store. Each copy cost 20 cents, but they are really worth so much more than that.That's right. I sold my GRE...
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Yesterday I woke up crestfallen, and went to the hospital for my head. They put me in a children's room. There were animals painted on all of the walls. It looked like Noah's Ark. They gave me shots,...
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Baby Animals
Yesterday I went to Etsy, and was shocked to see one of my items on the front page, in the stocking stuffer gift guide!(those are my finger puppets in the top left corner)I always assumed that if you...
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Hey Cupcake
Being the only girl in my family (I grew up with a small pack of wolves named Matthew, Noah, and Caleb), I am expected to look like a cupcake when we get together, so I made this rose print silk skirt...
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Ponies Out
During Thanksgiving break, my mother and I made a coat. She is a talented seamstress, so with her help it wasn't too difficult.Don't be fooled by its subtle grey exterior. The inside of this coat is...
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Wrong Kind of Girl
I read this fine book a few nights ago and am still reeling from its emotional impact. In Wrong Kind of Girl, Jessica Wakefield tries her hardest to keep Annie Whitman, known around Sweet Valley High...
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Melancholic Creatures
I was really sad last night and so I made this blackbird. It only made things worse, because every time I make something I get very upset by it. I have always had this reaction to anything that I make....
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Brilliant Little Brains
Race cars, and a paper city, made by a little boy named Oscar.(From http://foxandowl.blogspot.com/)
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Zoetrope
When in Dallas, I had to visit my greatest friend, Miss Alice Vanderbilt Shepard at the Amon Carter museum, forever immortalized as a thirteen year old girl in boy's clothing by John Singer Sargent. It...
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Heirloom
I got a new shelf last week in an effort to organize my fabric, yarn, and other items that were overwhelming my poor grandmother's antique kitchen table. Bless her heart, Jean de Vault Rosencrantz....
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I heard that gender is performative, so I walk on stilts
Right now I am half-accidentally, half-eagerly growing my hair into some kind of tragic gypsy mullet. I want it to look like I've just stumbled down from the mountains, but only because my moonshiner...
View ArticleTiny People
In addition to Jean de Vault, there have been many other wonderful and funny names in my family. For instance:1. Maude de Vault2. Valentine de Vault (this was a man)3. Henri de Vault4. Margot de...
View ArticleFever
I've always wanted to have the last name Burns, so my name could be a sad sentence. Like in Jane Eyre: Helen Burns. She really does. I could say, this is not my name, it's a tragedy. And this is not a...
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This Dress is Bulletproof
Uh oh, it's all come to a head. Even Rasputin, with all of his energy, could not save the prince from certain death, and so what are we to do but line up for this family portrait? Except, wait a...
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Birds Found on the Arctic Slope of Northern Alaska
As promised, here are a few heartbreaking excerpts from one of my favorite scientific publications, Birds Found on the Arctic Slope of Northern Alaska by James W. Bee (University of Kansas...
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Recent Acquisitions, UPDATE!
I'm a collector now. At the moment, I'm reading Two-Boy Weekend.UPDATE: Rachel's question prompted me to update this entry with a summary of lessons learned from Two-Boy Weekend,which, I guess is a...
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Scottish Highlands Finger Puppets
(peregrine falcon, shetland pony, highland cattle, scottish blackface sheep, loch ness monster)Here is a new set of finger puppets added to the shop. After a short vacation this weekend I'm going to...
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Eternal Children
All items and photos can be found here, Mieke Willems.Mieke Willems collects all the nice things in the world. I was so sad to hear that their little shop is closing.Times are hard for eternal children...
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This Could Be Yours!
I found this glorious copy of The Clue of the Tapping Heels today, and I'm feeling a little generous. Youth novels come in and out of my sad life at a pretty constant rate. For example, today I...
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A Concise History of Ornithology
It's high time I told you, if you didn't already know, that I have a bona fide obsession with birds. So much so, that I almostneverwrite about them here. I can't. I become overwhelmed by the task of...
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The Bindy, Windy Wind
(found http://www.lolitas.se)You'd better get out of that bottle of gin.
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